Friday, 27 January 2017

Cochrane's decennial boiler examination starts in a little over a week with a thorough visual examination by the inspector. As far as possible, external & internal surfaces of the shell should be clean and accessible.

The photos below have been copied from the web or scanned; copyright remains with the respective owners & publishers.On the NRM blog there's an article about the end of GEC traction and its predecessors, which included this catalogue cover:

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